Women and the animal rights movement

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gaarder, Emily (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    USA: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36367
    Subject Term:
    advertising, animal rights, attitudes, campaigns, farming methods, gender, history, information sources, interest groups, leadership, participation, research methods, women, and social movements
    Notes:
    181 pages., Based on extensive conversations with women animal rights activists. Author identifies two competing frameworks within the animal rights movement. One names the oppression of anmals as the most crucual social justice issue of our times. This framework focuses on animal liberation. The second names the oppression of animals as part of a broad, intersecting web of inequality that encompasses gender, race, class and environmental concerns. Examins the predominance of women in animal rights activism.

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